There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
John
GospelsAnd Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.
Numbers
Law / MosesTill a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs
WisdomThen I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the LORD, and my work with my God.
Isaiah
Major ProphetsAnd a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
Matthew
GospelsThen the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel
HistoryHe that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Ecclesiastes
Wisdom / SolomonAnd they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraLord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Psalms
PoetryThey were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
Job
WisdomBut it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
1 Chronicles
HistoryFor how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
Esther
HistoryI will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Psalms
Poetry / David and othersAnd said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
Esther
HistoryI will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
Luke
Gospels / LukeI have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts
History / LukeAll hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Ezekiel
Major ProphetsWhen thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesThus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;